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Friday, December 14, 2012

13th Dec 2012 marked 11th anniversary of another
moment of shame and anguish ~ the attack on the supreme Institution fo India – the
Parliament. Incidents like these and
26/11 show that our neighbour continues to be extremely unfriendly and hostile……..
in such circumstances, Cricket with the sole purpose of enriching the coffers
of Pak Cricket Board seems totally unwarranted. At a personal level despite my
following of the game, have decided that would not watch the Indo Pak Series
nor write a single post on the game…. Read
my reasoning on – why India
should not host the Series at this juncture. : Indo Pak Cric is bad idea

Remembering the occasion, the Nation paid homage to the
martyrs of terrorist attack on Parliament. It was on this day in 2001, heavily
armed-terrorists attacked the temple of democracy in New Delhi. Eleven persons including five
policemen were killed during the attack by Pakistani terrorists. Vice President
Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar,
Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and
Rajya Sabha, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley, BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani and
several other leaders paid floral tributes to the martyrs at a solemn ceremony.

The event cast its reflection on the Lok Sabha yesterday as
the place degenerated into chaos and bedlam in the Lok Sabha within minutes of
the House assembling, reducing the sombre day into an ordinary one. Newspaper
reports suggest that the Lok Sabha was
disrupted repeatedly with BJP members demanding the hanging of Parliament
attack convict Afzal Guru and BSP creating a ruckus on the coal block
allocation scam. This was the second day this week when the House functioned
sporadically. Amid the uproar, the Speaker first adjourned the House till 11:30
am and then till noon. The House met briefly at noon and was adjourned till 2
pm.

Speaking to reporters outside of the House, leader of
opposition Sushma Swaraj said, "Real tribute would be only if the home
minister assures the House today that we have paid tributes to the martyrs but
their families and country will get relief only when he (Guru) is hanged."
She added, "One question is still unanswered that the attacker who has
been twice or thrice sentenced to death by the Supreme Court, why has he not
been hanged so far."

Minister of state for home R P N Singh criticized Swaraj stating "We have just paid tributes to
those martyrs. I think it is extremely unfortunate that the moment we get away
from there, we get into politics... I think to politicize this thing on every
December 13 is not paying real homage to martyrs of this country," he
said.

The 2001 Indian Parliament attack was a high-profile attack
by Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists against the building housing
the Parliament of India in New Delhi.
The attack led to the death of a dozen people.
On 13 December 2001, five gunmen infiltrated the Parliament House in a
car with Home Ministry and Parliament labels. While both the Rajya Sabha and
Lok Sabha had been adjourned 40 minutes prior to the incident, many Members of
Parliament (MPs) and government officials such as Home Minister LK Advani and
Minister of State for Defence Harin Pathak were believed to have still been in
the building at the time of the attack. The gunmen drove their vehicle into the car of
the Indian Vice President Krishan Kant (who was in the building at the time),
got out, and began firing their weapons. The Vice President's guards and
security personnel shot back at the terrorists and then started closing the
gates of the compound. Constable Kamlesh Kumari was first to spot the terrorist
squad. One gunman, wearing a suicide vest, was shot dead; the vest exploded.
The other four gunmen were also killed. Five policemen, a Parliament security
guard, and a gardener were killed, and 18 others were injured. No minister or
any MP was hurt.

Indian Government initially accused LeT and JeM to be
involved in this attack. In December 2002, four JeM members were caught by
Indian authorities and put on trial. All four were found guilty of playing
various roles in the incident, although the fourth, Afsan Guru/Navjot Sandhu,
wife of Shaukat Hussain Guru (one of the accused) was found guilty of a minor
charge of concealing knowledge of conspiracy. One of the accused, Mohammad
Afzal Guru, was sentenced to the death penalty for the incident.

Mohammad Afzal, sentenced to death by Indian court and due
to be hanged on 20 October, had his execution stayed. On 13 December 2006, the
families of the deceased returned the medals to the government expressing their
anguish on the inaction.

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